Piney
[paini]
Definition
(a.) See Piny.
(a.) A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the Vateria Indica or piney tree, of the order Dipterocarpeae, which grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products.
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Examples
- He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of the resinous sap from the cut limbs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Burnside will move to Piney Branch Church. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- To this end Sedgwick who was at Piney Branch Church, was ordered to Warren's support. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At this time my headquarters had been advanced to Piney Branch Church. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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